• BombOmOm@lemmy.world
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    • Coal is made from plants.

    • Oil is made from plankton and algae.

    • Natural gas is made from microorganisms.

    I believe all three have a small chance of also being made from an animal. But I wasn’t able to verify that part.

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      I mean, even if they do contain animal, does it matter? Are vegans not allowed to pick up old buffalo skulls from the ground from buffalo which died of natural causes?

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      A large part of plankton consists of animals like crustaceans and jellyfish (zooplankton). Though IDK if that was also true back when the current oil deposits were formed.